Andrew Brinjarski is an American actor. He hails from the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has a track record of 46 cinematic roles. Appeared in such significant feature films as “Pearl Harbor”, “Batman Returns”, “Every Sunday”, “Hudson Hawk”, and the series “Firefly”, “Without a Trail”, “Black Mark”. Growth Andrew Brinyarski - 197 cm. The first role played in 1986. In 2004, he received the MTV Channel Award for Best Villain for his role in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre horror movie.
He worked with actors Mark Pellegrino, Brian Cousins, Troy Evans, Danny Trejo and others. He acted in film directors Michael Vigger, John T. Kretschmer, Felix Enrik Alkala, Tim Matheson, Chris Long. Films with Andrew Brinjarski belong to the genres of action, thriller, drama, adventure. The most successful period of his work is 1999-2001. Fans of the horror genre call him the best performer of the role of a madman, nicknamed Leather Face from the movie The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
short biography
The actor was born on February 13, 1969 in the city of Philadelphia (USA). He is a graduate of a school located in a small town near Philadelphia. I got into the cinema thanks to a happy coincidence. When Andrew was visiting his friend in Los Angeles, he was spotted by one of the Hollywood agents who was looking for a muscular guy of huge stature for his role in the film The Hudson Hawk. Soon, Andrew Brinyarski accepted an invitation from him to participate in the creation of this comedy action movie. After that, producers who needed an actor with phenomenal physical data very often took him to their cinematic projects as such.
Character Actor Leather Face
The actor was invited to the film “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” largely because the anthropometric data of Andrew Brinyarski (height, weight) allowed him to embody the mighty madman in a leather mask with almost supernatural physical strength. Talking about his work in this cinematic project, the actor notes that he always wanted to play such a character and sought to fulfill this dream. Criticism notes that Andrew Brinjarski managed to create the image of a frightening and deadly maniac, who in almost everything differs from his prototype from the 1974 film of the same name - a mentally underdeveloped bumpkin.
Andrew Brinjarski in a conversation about his hero claims that a man with a chainsaw, ready at any time to saw her around, looks very frightening. The actor told that he plunges into the image 100 percent, transferring his energy to the audience. Prior to the Brinjarski character, Leather Face was played by several people, but he believes that among them there is only one worthy actor - Gunnar Hansen.
The actor's thoughts about his role
What does the actor say about his role in the horror movie?
- He carefully worked on the psychology of the character.
- The Leather Face is insane, but not mentally retarded.
- His character is a killer, the embodiment of evil. The breadwinner of his family, hunting people for food.
- His character, who once worked in a slaughterhouse, kills because he wants to give way to his thirst for revenge. He knows that killing a two-legged creature and using it as food is not difficult for him.
First roles
After The Hudson Hawk, the actor starred in the movie Necessity of Cruelty, a sports comedy about trainer Edd Jennero who needed to create a battle-worthy football team called Texas Armadillos from a bunch of losers. In 1992, he appeared in Tim Burton's film "Batman Returns" - a fantastic action movie with Michael Keaton and Michelle Pfeiffer in the lead roles. Then he played in a television film of the serial format “The Apostate” - an adventure action movie about two brothers - participants in modern gladiatorial battles, forced to confront each other in the final battle.
Significant films
In 2001, actor Andrew Brinjarski joined the cast of the full-length film Pearl Harbor, a military-historical drama about the fate of two pilots whose friendship is being tested by war and more. A year later, appeared in the sci-fi adventure series Firefly, which tells about the events in the life of the captain of the spacecraft Serenity, who was once a warrior, and now is forced to engage in criminal intergalactic transportation.
New roles
In 2015, Andrew Brinjarski played a small role in the French-German cinema project with Diane Krueger in the title role “Sky” - a drama about husband and wife, who, even during a joint trip to the United States, are not ready to exchange their quarrels for love and mutual respect. In the end, the main character named Romy is bored by this state of affairs, and she rushes towards the unknown. In 2017, appeared in the horror film "2016" directed by Gary Sturgis.
Finally
Brinjarski claims that fans always treated him well, even if the film with his participation was bad, which is the main reason why he does not give up his acting work. The movie with the Andrew Brinjarski Texas Chainsaw Massacre is sure to appeal to fans of the horror genre.